From: "Joe Barr" 

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:27:53 +0200, Peter Sawatzki wrote:

>
> Seems MS made also good progress with their Shared Source initiatives as
> it made finally a deal with our German government about licensing of
> Microsoft products within the government IT world. After making a deal
> with IBM on Linux support our government was also able to make a good deal
> with MS:
>
>  http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-10.04.03-007/ (german only)
>
> Peter

Significant savings from the extremely high prices they normally gouge
folks for?  Tell us more.  How much of a savings did they get.  And how
much freedom did they have to give up to get it?




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